Grants Database

Grants Database

The Foundation awards approximately 200 grants per year (excluding the Sloan Research Fellowships), totaling roughly $80 million dollars in annual commitments in support of research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. This database contains grants for currently operating programs going back to 2008. For grants from prior years and for now-completed programs, see the annual reports section of this website.

Grants Database

3,474 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: Digital Public Library of America, Inc.
    amount: $250,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2020

    To support a suite of COVID-19 response activities, including community archives capturing the experiences of African-American communities and expanded online resources

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Universal Access to Knowledge
    • Investigator John Bracken

    To support a suite of COVID-19 response activities, including community archives capturing the experiences of African-American communities and expanded online resources

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  • grantee: University of Wisconsin System
    amount: $49,993
    city: Madison, WI
    year: 2020

    To support the research and writing of “A World Without Soil,” to be published by MIT Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jo Handelsman

    To support the research and writing of “A World Without Soil,” to be published by MIT Press

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $100,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2020

    To support the research and writing of “A Tactical Guide for Science Journalists,” published by Oxford University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Deborah Blum

    To support the research and writing of “A Tactical Guide for Science Journalists,” published by Oxford University Press

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  • grantee: Missouri University of Science and Technology
    amount: $150,000
    city: Rolla, MO
    year: 2020

    To study how community choice aggregation (CCA) energy procurement programs influence consumer adoption of renewable technologies

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Casey Canfield

    To study how community choice aggregation (CCA) energy procurement programs influence consumer adoption of renewable technologies

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  • grantee: Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    amount: $36,442
    city: Needham, MA
    year: 2020

    To support the research and writing of “Public Utility,” to be published by Riverhead by 2021

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Debbie Chachra

    To support the research and writing of “Public Utility,” to be published by Riverhead by 2021

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  • grantee: Data Foundation
    amount: $250,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2020

    To administer a large-scale, weekly household survey to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the United States

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Joe Willey

    To administer a large-scale, weekly household survey to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the United States

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  • grantee: Pecan Street, Inc.
    amount: $74,931
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2020

    To create data libraries that will further enhance the use of the Dataport energy information database

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Suzanne Russo

    To create data libraries that will further enhance the use of the Dataport energy information database

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  • grantee: Inria Fondation
    amount: $199,629
    city: Paris, France
    year: 2020

    To extend the coverage of the Software Heritage archive of source code

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Roberto Di Cosmo

    To extend the coverage of the Software Heritage archive of source code

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  • grantee: Yarn Labs
    amount: $150,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2020

    To design and prototype a model for an AI Bias Bounty system

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Joy Buolamwini

    To design and prototype a model for an AI Bias Bounty system

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  • grantee: Yale University
    amount: $48,326
    city: New Haven, CT
    year: 2020

    To produce a collection of videos that enables the incorporation of recent economic scholarship into the antitrust law curriculum

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Fiona Scott Morton

    To produce a collection of videos that enables the incorporation of recent economic scholarship into the antitrust law curriculum

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